 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...seas of dispute ;" and asks what but a sense of duty could have enabled him thus to have been "put off from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." This truth was truth universal ; this air, the same that haunted the room of Plato, and came breathing... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholdingthe bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 pages
...their musing, to propose to themselves whatever is of highest hope and hardest attempting ;" whether in "beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," or as " poets soaring high in the region of their fancies, with their garlands and singing robes about... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 374 pages
...man," — who can reason on the rights, and defend the liberties of his race, and, retiring to " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," woo others with the " soft and solemn-breathing sound " which issued from his retreat, to come and... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1837 - 590 pages
...clean of heart ; the result of whose kind and gentle words, accompanied with joyous semblance, was to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. "... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." But with this sublime declaration of ambitious aspirations, are mingled a fierceness of hatred, and... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1839 - 1020 pages
...interest in religion, let us hare profounder thought, prolonged meditation, gazing, a* Milton says, on the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful study. REV. EDMUND B. WILT.SON, of Grafton, in rising to second the resolution, said : — He had been... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these" (alluding to his poetical schemes), " and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Things unattempted yet... | |
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I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and... 
